Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] which [pron] may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State may receive representations in the light of which he may decide to require a particular application to be referred to him for decision . |
| 3 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 4 | To describe the positions and velocities of atoms in a polymer requires choosing a set of global axes , defining a continuum , with reference to which we may describe the positions and velocities of the atoms . |
| 5 | The degree to which we may have to , to use a fairly shoddy word , compromise . |
| 6 | The Timeshare Act , which provides buyers with a 14-day cooling off period during which they may withdraw from a timeshare agreement , comes into effect on 12 October ( p 99 ) . |
| 7 | Implementation of a new Timeshare Act , which provides buyers with a 14-day ‘ cooling off ’ period during which they may withdraw from a timeshare agreement , has been announced by Consumer Affairs Minister Baroness Denton . |
| 8 | One of these effects can be what Britton ( 1981 ) refers to as the phenomenon of re-enactment as an unwitting professional response to the dynamics of a child 's situation , the difficulty that exists for professionals not to re-enact — and thereby aggravate — what the child already experiences , and the ease with which they may collude with his sense of hopelessness and negative feelings . |
| 9 | There will be three open classes each with a different teacher from which you may choose one session ; there will also be a separate class for the children and an interesting selection of displays . |
| 10 | For example , salesmen and/or engineers will be trained to sell and/or service a specific product in which they may develop technical expertise and thereby offer a better sales and after-sales service to customers ; |
| 11 | And although no precise mechanism for contextual retrieval has been given , the parallel with occasion setting has been noted and forms a basis on which we may build . |
| 12 | Wait to hear re Bank ( ie if any i/view ) , and ditto Health Education Board for Scotland , Common Purpose ( a fascinating organisation about which you may have read in the papers ) , the Scottish Rugby Union ( ! ) and some others . |
| 13 | One direction in which it may move is to replace some existing degree courses by two-year diplomas , though if this comes about it is not likely to be before the late 1980s . |
| 14 | Each help screen has an index from which you may select a topic . |
| 15 | This brings us inevitably to international law : the rules which make agreements between states binding ; the rules which seek to limit from the outside the kinds of actions which states may take in relation to each other and provide a framework within which they may negotiate . |
| 16 | Suddenly , the division bells ring and the room empties , milords making their way to vote in a debate of which they may have heard not a word . |
| 17 | In Dee , however , Palles C.B. deplored such a view , which he claimed was ‘ abhorrent to our best feelings and discreditable to any jurisprudence in which it may succeed in obtaining a place . ’ |
| 18 | The elderly , unemployed , the less skilled , single-parent families , larger families are all concentrated in council tenure because it is the only form of tenure to which they may have easy access . |
| 19 | In the treaty of union , where is the mechanism by which we may change the law ? |
| 20 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 21 | The first type of state is the case where monotonous driving on featureless roads , particularly motorways/highways , has been claimed to lead to the driver falling into a trance-like state in which they may fail to adequately respond to changes in the road environment . |
| 22 | ‘ Even those who make money out of it — not just the pushers and dealers — are destroying the society in which they may wish to appear affluent . ’ |
| 23 | As I understand it Jehovah 's Witnesses accept and take advantage of the same medical treatment as those who do not subscribe to their beliefs and are as anxious as anyone else to recover from any illness from which they may suffer . |
| 24 | As well as raising ethical and moral issues , such a policy might reduce further the provision of beds in intensive care units for patients with illness from which they may recover . |
| 25 | I look forward to hearing thoughtful and far-reaching speeches such as that made by the hon. Member for Chichester when these matters are discussed at Maastricht , and I hope that views such as his will be reflected in Maastricht — a subject to which I may return in due course . |
| 26 | Other documents imply the existence of lay archives , and this is hardly surprising in a world in which there may have been considerable literacy in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 27 | The figure of Francisco Franco and his political talent , like his military talent before , have made possible a situation in which we may look to the future with optimism . |
| 28 | Then there will be many people and organisations she will need to notify of her date of removal and her new address , such as the Gas and Electricity Boards ; the Department of Health and Social Security , for the transfer of the drawing of her pension to the post office near your home ; the local rates office , income tax office , and television rental office ; the bank manager , and building society or other places where she may have invested her savings ; her insurance agent , the headquarters of any pension fund to which she may belong , the telephone manager , and the post office for the redirection of her letters ( for which a form has to be completed and a fee paid ) . |
| 29 | In summary , one can say that one can not teach any creature to mentally be like any other , since we have no handle by which we may modify the essential mind structure of another creature . |
| 30 | By reading a wide range of literature , children become aware of new forms of discourse and modes of expression with which they may experiment in their own writing . |